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Friday, March 21, 2014

POTW: Art direction

The Mittani makes his debut in the Dark Horse EVE: True Stories #3 released this week. Have to admit it made me laugh a little. The direction to the artist seems to have been: "Give him a goatee. Make him look smug."


Mission accomplished. ;-)

That said, the "True Stories" seem to be delving further and further into "based on a true story" territory...
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  1. AnonymousMarch 21, 2014 at 9:31 AM

    I don't think you can really blame them for that though... The director pushed the mythical disband button and all alliance territory immediately got disowned doesn't make for a good comic.

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  2. Marc CallanMarch 21, 2014 at 10:01 AM

    Perhaps the artist also happened across Mord Fiddle's description of the capsuleer in question.

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  3. AdZcMarch 21, 2014 at 11:09 AM

    I thought i read somewhere that it IS based on a true story, not that they are heading that way, but that was the plan all along. :)

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  4. quandry247March 21, 2014 at 12:50 PM

    To adapt my favourite line from the Heath Ledger film A Knights Tale
    "I'm a[n artist], I give the truth scope!"

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  5. Wilhelm ArcturusMarch 21, 2014 at 1:28 PM

    I kind of favor the frame of him saying, "Dumbass." I'll be disappointed if that isn't a standard go-to graphic on Kugu soon.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 23, 2014 at 12:19 AM

      For reference, here's the frame in question: http://gyazo.com/650d299fcbfbcfc8a8ed9009c3fc3ed6

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  6. Serpentine LogicMarch 21, 2014 at 2:30 PM

    You had to know it was an unreliable narrator once you read about BoB being a premiere mining alliance.

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  7. AnonymousMarch 21, 2014 at 3:11 PM

    I like the way they're straddling EVE culture and traditional stories. It's almost more a story of what EVE players like to imagine themselves as and what happens, than a telling of what did happen.

    This isn't mittens first appearance though, he appeared a lot in the last one but the artist was incredibly inconsistent, he was totally chinese in half of them =D

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  8. AnonymousMarch 21, 2014 at 5:38 PM

    What? The Mittani appeared in three panels in Issue #2.

    http://i.imgur.com/eboSWnc.png

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    1. JesterMarch 21, 2014 at 7:51 PM

      But that was "a jump clone." :eyeroll:

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    2. AnonymousMarch 22, 2014 at 8:49 AM

      You didn't read issue #2 very well. The "jump clone" sitting at the table (and who it seems dies) was Ixes. The Mittani announced this as he entered scene. Same hair, same goatee, same jacket as The Mittani in issue #3.

      Or it's just a really poorly written comic book.

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  9. AnonymousMarch 22, 2014 at 8:48 AM

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